Community Foundations Supported US Citizen Deliberations

Estabalishing a community foundation in Hong Kong and running deliberative opinion poll are two areas of work our Centre wishes to pursue. It's good to see such things happening in other parts of the world...

Eight community foundations in the US supported Citizen Deliberations that took place on 16 October, three weeks before the US elections . The Deliberations brought together a random sample of citizens in 17 communities in the US in discussions on national security and American jobs in a global economy. The community foundations involved were those of Kansas City, Seattle, Miami, Charlottesville, Greater New Haven, Rochester, Cleveland and Detroit. They were providing funding and/or assistance in connecting with other organizations. For more information, see www.by-the-people.org.

(Source: Alliance Bulletin October 2004)